Jennifer Raitt

Trump's recent Executive Order on homelessness and public safety is prompting regulatory changes from federal agencies to existing programs related to homelessness. Learn how this impacts planning and overhauls HUD’s Continuum of Care: plnn.org/3J89fxD

The ROAD To Housing Act has passed in the Senate!🥳🙌 This historic bipartisan legislation will support planners in cutting red tape to increase housing supply in local communities of all sizes. Thank you to @SenWarren and @SenatorTimScott for your leadership!

Thank you to @SenWarren’s team for a great discussion on advancing the ROAD to Housing Act and FY26 funding for housing and community development. @APA_Planning @APAadvocates #ItTakesAPlanner

Thank you to team @JakeAuch for our great discussion about the ROAD to Housing Act and FY26 funding to support housing and community development. @APA_Planning @APAadvocates #ItTakesAPlanner

Thank you to the @sethmoulton team for our great discussion about the ROAD to Housing Act and FY26 funding to support housing and community development. @APA_Planning @APAadvocates #ItTakesAPlanner

Thank you to the @LoriTrahanMA team for our great discussion about the ROAD to Housing Act and FY26 funding to support housing and community development. @APA_Planning @APAadvocates #ItTakesAPlanner

Thank you to team @SenMarkey for our great discussion about the ROAD to Housing Act and FY26 funding to support housing and community development. @APA_Planning @APAadvocates #ItTakesAPlanner

Our very own @JenniferRaitt hosts a panel on financing and building housing abundance. Through collaboration, federal support, and local reforms, we can achieve housing abundance in communities nationwide!

Time is money — that goes for building housing too. Longer delays means higher costs for builders, and higher rents and home prices for everyone else. Because of @MassGovernor’s plan to fast-track new housing, we’ll be able to build more homes and lower costs across the state.

The 2025 APA Consolidated Elections are underway, and candidates for APA Board of Directors and AICP Commission offices have been published. All candidates for office, including my candidacy for Director At Large are listed at lnkd.in/eg2c-xn7. I encourage you to vote!

That’s a wrap on the #HousingSupply Accelerator Summit! Hosted by APA and @leagueofcities the summit was an incredible moment for learning and creating action on local solutions to housing supply. Offering an opportunity to forge critical partnerships, this summit explored how robust public-private and federal-local partnerships can accelerate housing supply solutions at the local level. The Summit also marked the first meeting of America’s Housing Comeback, which aims to accelerate the housing successes of local governments using the solutions, systems, and partnerships approach outlined in the Housing Supply Accelerator Playbook, as well as ignite a federal focus on policy solutions for addressing the nation’s housing shortage. 10 committee members represented APA and planner’s roles in housing solutions. We look forward to continuing the work ahead to increase housing supply with our partners. @NAHBhome @nardotrealtor plnn.org/4lbgLoF

Planners’ Day on Capitol Hill 2025 is kicking off now! Follow along as planners advocate to their congressional offices for federal support for locally led housing and #zoningreform. #ItTakesAPlanner 👇

@salimfurth Thanks for the tip! I’ll be there this summer.

Folks, no kidding, I think I've found the YIMBY North Star - the place that's basically doing everything right and everyone else should imitate:

“We have the data & we have a responsibility to build housing for people” -@coreywoodstempe Thank you Mayor Woods of @Tempegov, @SG_Hardin of @ColumbusGov, @JenniferRaitt of @NMCOG, & Lauren Lowery of @leagueofcities for a captivating session on combatting NIMBY attitudes!

Shoutout to @JenniferRaitt and the rest of @MassGovernor's Unlocking Housing Production Commission for releasing a new report with 50 recommendations to increase housing in MA. #ItTakesAPlanner's perspective to bring recommendations like these to life! 🙌 mass.gov/news/unlocking…

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

This is why that Cambridge rezoning matters. So many progressive regions have been locking people out of opportunity and it has profound impacts for our economy and as we now see, for our democracy. Bravo @YAppelbaum theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

The real energy of these events is connecting with past, current, and new colleagues and friends. These are the connections that matter the most in getting things done. #HousingSolutions #Leadership #Planning #Collaboration #LocalGov #HousingSupplyAccelerator

We also heard inspiring messages from our federal delegation, who emphasized the importance of continued action on affordability, federal support and funding, and pushing on the issues that matter most to Massachusetts in Washington.

Proud to have participated in #Connect351, the @massmunicipal Annual Conference, where local and state leaders gathered to discuss critical issues facing our communities.